Yair landau biography

Yair Landau could not have timed the start of his Hollywood career any better. After a brief stint in investment banking, the Stanford MBA arrived at what was then Columbia Pictures Entertainment in 1991, soon after the venerable studio had been acquired by Sony.

'I joined as the leading global consumer electronics company was making its foray into entertainment,' Landau says.

'I view the trajectory of my career as building a bridge between a hardware company and an entertainment company. And that bridge is really built on digital technology, both for production and distribution.'

Starting in the studio's finance department, he moved on to corporate development and strategic planning and in 1999 formed a new Sony division designed to bring digital artists, technologists and production software engineers together in the creation of digital entertainment.

Now, as vice-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and president of its Sony Pictures Digital (SPD) division, he oversee Yair Landau - Crunchbase Person Profile BUCEN